JA

owing to the want

owing to the want of any feeling for nature in the new gardener

always provided her maid with a fresh problem and filled her with fresh despair

she had brought so foreign a type of mind into my father’s family that everyone made a joke of it

save for herself

er in her weakness conquered before she began,

in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them

Intended for a more special and a baser use, this room, from which, in the daytime, I could see as far as the keep of Roussainville-le-Pin, was for a long time my place of refuge, doubtless because it was the only room whose door I was allowed to lock, whenever my occupation was such as required an inviolable solitude; reading or dreaming, secret tears or paroxysms of desire

garden dress of blue muslin

sad reflection invariably left the drying traces of an involuntary tear